So I have been seeing these ads a lot lately for “I’ll teach you how to make money doing this!”, and of course I have to pay them a seizable amount. Ok that’s fair.

I know it’s probably something like this:

They find a method X that makes ok money, do X for a bit, then sell a course on how to make money doing X. Then they make a ton of money selling courses on how to do X, show themselves in a Ferrari and say “see how much money I made doing X? You can too! Just pay me $997!”

My question is: is it ALWAYS a scam? Or are there legitimate gurus out there that teach you stuff that can legitimately teach you how to make money.

And to those that are going to say: “the problem is that they are selling a course that you can easily find information online for free”. I don’t mind paying for a course that I can easily find the information online, because part of the reason for paying for it is that you are committing yourself to that, without commitment it’s much harder to get profitable.

My main concern is: is it always a scam that you cannot make any money out of it, or hardly any money?